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Junk to Jewels Podcast with Georgette Beck episodes

October 05Melody Miller Mann at Podapalooza: 40 Countries, $1,200, and the Day Jesus Called Her by Name
Episode summary
Recorded live during the Podapalooza #16 virtual marathon, this episode welcomes author, retired nurse, and journalist Melody Miller Mann, RN, BSN, BJ. In 1973, fresh out of the University of Texas at Austin and leaving a dream job that turned sour, Melody walked into the post office instead of the unemployment office, applied for her passport, and set off with $1,200 and an overstuffed pink suitcase she nicknamed her “pink dinosaur.” Over 12 months she traveled solo through 40 countries.
But the greatest moment of the journey wasn't a landmark. Alone in the back of an ambulance in her 40th country, Melody realized she had pursued independence all the way to isolation. Days later, a stranger on a Dublin sidewalk invited her to pizza with his friends, and in the middle of their simple prayer of thanks, she encountered Jesus, who called her by a name almost no one ever used: Melody. Truth had found her.
Georgette and Melody talk about divine appointments, discovering your God-given purpose, the “miracle hire” that launched her medical-writing career, her personal journey with natural health, the knee injury she calls an “obedience injury,” and why it's never too late to learn, grow, and begin again. Melody's new memoir, Truth Found Me, is endorsed by Jack Canfield as “a real page-turner.”
In this episode
Why Melody traded a dream job that turned sour for a passport and a one-way adventure
Hitchhiking across Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary — and the pink suitcase that burst open mid-airport
The ambulance ride that revealed the end of the road for independence: isolation
A Dublin sidewalk, a pizzeria, and the moment Jesus called her “Melody”
Why the title is Truth Found Me — not “I Found Truth”
A joyful restroom attendant at the Strawberry Festival and the question: Do you have a dream?
The man who hired her before he even knew her name
Writing a memoir from the journal she kept across 40 countries
Her personal journey with natural remedies through PMS, menopause, and a bone-on-bone knee
Why the Holy Spirit is her greatest mentor and the Word is her favorite book
One takeaway for anyone wondering whether their life has meaning, purpose, or design
Connect with Melody
Website: truthfoundme.com
Book: Truth Found Me by Melody Miller Mann (watch for her interview with Jack Canfield on her website)
Connect with Georgette
Book: Junk to Jewels on Amazon
Instagram: instagram.com/georgette.beck
Facebook: facebook.com/GeorgetteBeckWriter
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/georgette-beck-7a659387
Twitter/X: x.com/GeorgetteMBeck
TikTok: tiktok.com/@georgette2038
YouTube: youtube.com/@georgettebeck9168
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23 min
September 30Coach Mo Cooper: Your Best Health Is Hiding in Your Calendar - Live from Podapalooza
Episode Summary
Recorded live in the Podatorium at Podapalooza, this episode brings Georgette together with Maureen “Coach Mo” Cooper, a Healthy Lifestyle and Nutrition Coach who lost more than 65 pounds and has kept it off for over 15 years. Georgette opens with honesty about her own lifelong struggle with weight and self-esteem, and Mo meets her there with warmth, humor, and hard-won wisdom.
Mo shares how years of putting herself last — raising three little ones in constant chaos — finally shifted with an unlikely gift: a Wii workout game that sat in its box for three weeks. That small, goofy start became a 5 AM habit, and that hour of “just me” time became the beginning of her transformation. She explains why her signature talk says your best health is hiding in your calendar: your calendar has no feelings and doesn’t judge what you look like in a bikini. It simply shows you where your time, energy, and thoughts are going.
Together they unpack why willpower isn’t the answer for women who have tried every diet, why restriction only adds pressure, and why lasting change is about building on rock instead of shifting sand. Mo tells the moving story behind the name Mo Mind Body Soul — born in a moment of making the sign of the cross on a drive home — and describes herself as a “backdoor preacher” who weaves faith into wellness because peace is critical to lowering stress. She also shares her morning routine, the SOAP journaling method (Scripture, Observation, Application, Prayer), the books that shaped her, and a beautiful prayer: “Lord, empty me… fill me… use me.”
In This Episode
Why putting yourself last isn’t heroic — and why nobody hands out medals for it
The Wii workout game (and the awkward Christmas gift) that changed everything
The 5 AM hour: finding time when nobody wants a piece of you
What your calendar has to do with losing weight — and why it’s the neutral place to start
Why “we don’t need more discipline, we need less pressure”
How forbidden foods make us think about them all the more
The Holy Trinity story behind the name Mo Mind Body Soul
The secret to keeping weight off for 15+ years: less stress, not perfection
The SOAP journaling method: Scripture, Observation, Application, Prayer
Breaking free from all-or-nothing thinking
Mo’s heart-to-heart café guest — and the prayer that changed her mornings
Memorable Moments
“Putting yourself last isn’t heroic… we don’t get any medals for not showing up for ourselves.” — Coach Mo
“Your calendar doesn’t have feelings. Your calendar’s not telling you what you look like in a bikini.” — Coach Mo
“We don’t need more discipline. We need less pressure.” — Coach Mo
“I want you to build on rock, not on sand.” — Coach Mo
“What we do either dims the light or brightens the light.” — Coach Mo
Books & Resources Mentioned
Atomic Habits by James Clear (and the companion workbook)
Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking by Jon Acuff
Finish by Jon Acuff
Jesus Calling by Sarah Young (devotional and podcast)
The 5 AM Club by Robin Sharma
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron — featured in Georgette’s Junk to Jewels Heart Challenge
SOAP journaling: Scripture, Observation, Application, Prayer
Podapalooza — the podcasting event where this episode was recorded; guests, speakers, and podcasters can all take part
Connect with Coach Mo
Website: MoMindBodySoul.com

ABOUT OUR GUEST
Maureen “Coach Mo” Cooper
Healthy Lifestyle & Nutrition Coach | Founder, Mo Mind Body Soul
Maureen “Coach Mo” Cooper is a Healthy Lifestyle and Nutrition Coach who helps busy women break free from the cycle of dieting, overwhelm, and starting over. After losing 65+ pounds and maintaining it for over 15 years, she now teaches simple, sustainable habits that support lasting weight loss, more energy, and greater confidence.
Her philosophy is simple: “Your Best Health Is Closer Than You Think!” — and it starts with small, practical steps that fit real life. Certified through Precision Nutrition, Mo takes a whole-person approach rooted in mind, body, and soul, and she serves women 40+ who want to lose weight for life. A self-described “Jesus girl” and “backdoor preacher,” she weaves faith and peace into her coaching as a pathway to lower stress and lasting change.
Podapalooza Talk: Time Freedom: Your Best Health Is Hiding in Your Calendar!
Who She Serves: Women 40+ looking to lose weight for life
Website: MoMindBodySoul.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mocoopercoaching
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/momindbodysoul/

ABOUT THE PODCAST
The Junk to Jewels™ Podcast was inspired by Georgette’s first book, Junk to Jewels: A Journey from Brokenness & Despair to Beauty & Delight. The podcast will inspire, educate, encourage, motivate, and give hope to listeners as they heal from their past, in the present, for their future.
Georgette shares her heart on all “heart matters” — divorce, loss, abandonment, rejection, insecurity, self-esteem, remarriage, blended families, stepparenting, suicide, abortion, life purpose, faith, disappointment, depression, happiness, joy, hope, grief, sorrow, health, and more. Episodes include stories from Georgette’s life, affirmations, scriptures and quotes, wisdom from other authors and books, and guest speakers sharing their own junk-to-jewels stories.
Follow along to be inspired, encouraged, and receive hope daily!
Produced and created by Georgette Beck.
ABOUT YOUR HOST
Georgette Beck
Georgette Beck is an award-winning author, host of the Junk to Jewels™ Podcast, entrepreneur, mentor, and lay minister based on Florida’s Treasure Coast. Her memoir, Junk to Jewels: A Journey from Brokenness & Despair to Beauty & Delight (Fedd Books, 2024), is a winner of the International Impact Book Awards (Inspirational/Transformational category) and a Semi-Finalist in the 2025 Royal Palm Literary Award Competition with the Florida Writers Association.
Georgette is the Founder and President of Bella Healing Hearts Foundation, a nonprofit supporting single-parent families through mentorship, education, and scholarships, and a Realtor with Beach Front Becks – Realtors at Beach Front Mann Realty in Jensen Beach, alongside her husband, Scott. She holds an MA in Human Services from Liberty University. A wife, mom, stepmom, and grandmother of eight, she teaches the Four C’s — Contemplation, Community, Caring, and Contribution — and lives by her signature message: Nothing is wasted.
Connect with Georgette
Website: www.georgettebeck.com
Book: https://a.co/d/0etqV85U
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/georgette.beck/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GeorgetteBeckWriter
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgette-beck-7a659387/
Twitter/X: https://x.com/GeorgetteMBeck
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@georgette2038
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@georgettebeck9168
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24 min
September 21 Georgette Beck - Book Gems 2: Choosing a Life, Practicing Love, Doing the Right Thing
Episode Description
In this Junk to Jewels “Book Gems” episode, Georgette Beck shares reflections from three books that touched her heart: Peter Mayle's My 25 Years in Provence, Anne Lamott's Somehow: Thoughts on Love, and Ryan Holiday's Right Thing Right Now. She traces Mayle's life change from advertising to writing and his affectionate, humorous vignettes of Provençal culture, using his story to challenge listeners to choose a life intentionally and to embrace changing seasons — including grief and loss. Drawing from Lamott, Georgette explores love as a daily practice: the role of community, healthy boundaries, vulnerability, and loving across divides. From Holiday, she highlights justice as a foundational virtue — doing the right thing even without recognition — and the balance between justice and mercy, and expanding our circle of moral concern beyond our own tribe.
Peter Mayle — My 25 Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now
Peter Mayle (1939–2018) was a British advertising executive turned author, best known for his 1989 international bestseller A Year in Provence, which inspired a generation of readers and travelers to fall in love with the south of France. He was awarded the Légion d'Honneur by the French government for his cultural contribution to the relationship between France and the English-speaking world. My 25 Years in Provence was his final book, published posthumously as a love letter to his adopted home.
Anne Lamott — Somehow: Thoughts on Love
Anne Lamott is one of America's most beloved spiritual writers, essayists, and novelists, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the author of twenty books, including the New York Times bestsellers Bird by Bird, Traveling Mercies, Help, Thanks, Wow, and Dusk, Night, Dawn. Somehow: Thoughts on Love, her twentieth book, was a #1 New York Times bestseller and one of Publishers Weekly's Best Religion Books of 2024, known for its honesty, humor, and deep faith.
Instagram: @annelamott
Ryan Holiday — Right Thing Right Now: Good Values. Good Character. Good Deeds.
Ryan Holiday is one of the most influential writers on Stoic philosophy working today. A college dropout who apprenticed under author Robert Greene at age 19, he has since sold more than five million books in over 40 languages, including The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy, Stillness Is the Key, and The Daily Stoic. He lives outside Austin, Texas, where he owns and runs The Painted Porch Bookshop in Bastrop. Right Thing Right Now is the third installment in his Stoic Virtues series, following Courage Is Calling and Discipline Is Destiny, and debuted at #1 on The New York Times bestseller list.
Website: ryanholiday.net
Bookstore: thepaintedporch.com
Instagram: @ryanholiday
Chapters
00:00 Welcome and Book Gems
01:09 Three Books Teaser
02:07 Meet Peter Mayle
04:02 Provence Vibes and Humor
05:18 Choose a Life
05:58 Grief and Overwhelm
09:45 Slow Down and Reset
10:51 Flow With Change
12:01 Partners and Tribe
21:30 Blended Family Faith
27:34 Enough and Gratitude
28:43 Anne Lamott on Love
30:17 Love Changes Everything
31:40 Hard No and Boundaries
32:44 Never Too Late for Love
33:53 Truth Beyond Divisions
36:14 Community as Love
37:50 Vulnerability to Healing
40:12 Forgiveness and Reconciliation
45:02 Ryan Holiday on Justice
48:36 Mercy Versus Justice
50:09 Quiet Good Deeds
55:23 Expanding the Circle
58:03 Book Gems and Closing
Georgette Beck
Georgette Beck is host of the Junk to Jewels™ Podcast, award-winning author of Junk to Jewels: A Journey from Brokenness & Despair to Beauty & Delight (International Impact Book Awards winner, Inspirational/Transformational category, and Semi-Finalist in the 2025 Royal Palm Literary Award Competition with the Florida Writers Association), Realtor at Beach Front Becks, and Founder & President of Bella Healing Hearts Foundation, supporting single-parent families through mentorship, education, and scholarships.
Book: a.co/d/0etqV85U
Instagram: @georgette.beck
Facebook: Georgette Beck Writer
LinkedIn: Georgette Beck
Twitter/X: @GeorgetteMBeck
TikTok: @georgette2038
YouTube: @georgettebeck9168
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1 hr 1 min
September 14Joeaux Robey: PLURK — The Soul-Aligned Shortcut to 7 Figures
In this episode of the Junk to Jewels Podcast, recorded live at the Podapalooza Podatorium, Georgette sits down with Joeaux Robey, MBA — known as “The Joy” — CEO and visionary at Soulopreneur Productions. Joeaux shares the story behind her name change from Stephanie to Joeaux (guided, in part, by numerology), the corporate breaking point that redirected her life, and how she now helps heart-centered entrepreneurs turn passion into profit through her philosophy of PLURK — play plus work. The conversation moves through money mindset, reinvention at any age, and what it really means to build a soul-aligned business.
Episode Highlights
The story behind Joeaux's name change and its numerology-guided spelling
The corporate breaking point that led her out of a high-pressure Fortune 500 marketing career
What PLURK (play + work) means, and why she teaches it to her clients
Why money wounds hold so many spiritual and heart-centered entrepreneurs back
Her guiding belief that consciousness creates form
Why age is never a barrier to reinvention
Her free gift for listeners: the Soulmate Client Clarity Custom GPT
GUEST CONTACT & BIO
Joeaux Robey, MBA
“The Joy” | CEO & Visionary, Soulopreneur Productions | Branson, MO
Formerly EVP of a search engine marketing agency serving Fortune 500 companies, Joeaux built and sold four startups before a life-changing spiritual awakening redirected her path. She now leads Soulopreneur Productions, a full-service marketing and business agency for spiritually driven visionaries, and teaches her flagship program, Million Dollar Lightworker.
Website: soulopreneur.com
Free Gift: Soulmate Client Clarity Custom GPT
Instagram: @_soulopreneur
LinkedIn: Joeaux Robey, MBA

PODCAST INFO & HOST CONTACT
The Junk to Jewels™ Podcast, hosted by award-winning author and speaker Georgette Beck, features honest conversations about turning brokenness into beauty — rooted in Georgette's signature message, “Nothing is wasted” (Ecclesiastes 3:11), and her Four C's framework: Contemplation, Community, Caring, and Contribution.
Georgette is the award-winning author of the memoir Junk to Jewels: A Journey from Brokenness & Despair to Beauty & Delight (Fedd Books, 2024), recognized by the International Impact Book Awards (Inspirational/Transformational category) and named a Semi-Finalist in the 2025 Royal Palm Literary Award Competition with the Florida Writers Association. She holds an MA in Human Services with a concentration in Marriage & Family Counseling from Liberty University and serves as a lay minister and mentor — not a counselor. Georgette is also Founder & President of Bella Healing Hearts Foundation, a nonprofit supporting single-parent families through mentorship, education, and scholarships.
Host: Georgette Beck
Book: https://a.co/d/0etqV85U
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/georgette.beck/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GeorgetteBeckWriter
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgette-beck-7a659387/
Twitter/X: https://x.com/GeorgetteMBeck
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@georgette2038
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@georgettebeck9168

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17 min
September 05 Dr. Tamara Monosoff: From Gray Divorce to Badass — Rebuilding Life After 50
Episode Summary
On this episode of the Junk to Jewels™ Podcast, Georgette Beck sits down with Dr. Tamara Monosoff (as part of the Podapalooza event) — a therapist, entrepreneur, and author holding a master's in marriage and family therapy and a doctorate in women's leadership — to talk about rebuilding life after her unexpected gray divorce ended a 38-year relationship. Tamara opens up about the identity loss, shame, isolation, and financial and social fears that so often follow a divorce after 50, and why grief has no timeline and can't be rushed.
Georgette and Tamara explore how loneliness inside a marriage and unspoken truths can quietly erode connection, and why healing moves faster in community rather than alone. Tamara shares the small daily habits, long-deferred classes, and simple hellos that helped her recover — along with her leap to move to Portugal and finally pursue a childhood dream. It's an honest, hope-filled conversation about grief, reinvention, and discovering who you are on the other side of loss.
About Dr. Tamara Monosoff
Website: tamaramonosoff.com
She's Not Done Yet (Substack community): https://shesnotdoneyet.substack.com/
Georgette's Links
The Junk to Jewels™ Podcast, hosted by Georgette Beck — award-winning author, Realtor, and founder of Bella Healing Hearts Foundation.
Book: https://a.co/d/0etqV85U
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/georgette.beck/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GeorgetteBeckWriter
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgette-beck-7a659387/
Twitter/X: https://x.com/GeorgetteMBeck
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@georgette2038
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@georgettebeck9168
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24 min
August 24Dr. Gillian Lockitch: The Bionic Dancing Doc's Comeback Story
SHOW NOTES SUMMARY
In this episode of the Junk to Jewels Podcast, recorded live at the Podapalooza Podatorium, Georgette sits down with Dr. Gillian Lockitch — physician, author, and host of the Growing Older, Living Younger podcast, affectionately known as “The Bionic Dancing Doc.” After emergency spinal surgery threatened her mobility, Dr. Gillian became determined to ballroom dance again — and along the way discovered the power of epigenetics to reshape her own aging trajectory. She shares the science behind the antioxidant score, why she believes many age-associated disorders are really unhealthy-living-associated disorders, and the mindset shift that keeps her thriving at 81.
Episode Highlights
Her emergency spinal surgery and the 10-month journey back to the ballroom floor
How discovering epigenetics changed the way she approaches aging
Losing both parents to coronary artery disease — and what it taught her about prevention
What an antioxidant score is, and why carotenoids matter for eyes, brain, and heart
Her own diagnosis of myopic macular degeneration and how she has worked to protect her vision
The seven pillars of her GOLY (Growing Older, Living Younger) Project — and the one most people neglect: mindset
Her guiding belief: “If you believe you can, you can”
Her free resource: the Guide to Nature's Colorful Antioxidants
GUEST CONTACT & BIO
Dr. Gillian Lockitch
Physician, Author & Podcast Host | “The Bionic Dancing Doc”
A dual-certified Specialist in Paediatrics and Medical Biochemistry and former Professor at the University of British Columbia, Dr. Gillian is the author of Growing Older, Living Younger: The Science of Aging Gracefully and The Art of Retiring Comfortably. She hosts the weekly Growing Older, Living Younger podcast, now in Season 4 with 240+ episodes, and founded the GOLY Project, a coaching program built around seven pillars for preserving mind and body.
Website: askdrgill.com
Email: [email protected]
Free Gift: Guide to Nature's Colorful Antioxidants (downloadable from her website)
Podcast: Growing Older, Living Younger — weekly, every Monday, 240+ episodes
Book: Growing Older, Living Younger: The Science of Aging Gracefully and The Art of Retiring Comfortably
PODCAST INFO & HOST CONTACT
The Junk to Jewels™ Podcast, hosted by award-winning author and speaker Georgette Beck, features honest conversations about turning brokenness into beauty — rooted in Georgette's signature message, “Nothing is wasted” (Ecclesiastes 3:11), and her Four C's framework: Contemplation, Community, Caring, and Contribution.
Georgette is the award-winning author of the memoir Junk to Jewels: A Journey from Brokenness & Despair to Beauty & Delight (Fedd Books, 2024), recognized by the International Impact Book Awards (Inspirational/Transformational category) and named a Semi-Finalist in the 2025 Royal Palm Literary Award Competition with the Florida Writers Association. She holds an MA in Human Services with a concentration in Marriage & Family Counseling from Liberty University and serves as a lay minister and mentor — not a counselor. Georgette is also Founder & President of Bella Healing Hearts Foundation, a nonprofit supporting single-parent families through mentorship, education, and scholarships.
Host: Georgette Beck
Book: https://a.co/d/0etqV85U
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/georgette.beck/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GeorgetteBeckWriter
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgette-beck-7a659387/
Twitter/X: https://x.com/GeorgetteMBeck
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@georgette2038
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@georgettebeck9168
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21 min
August 17The Formula 4 Man: Gregory Halpern on Healing, Faith & Human Potential
Episode Description
Gregory Jesse Halpern joins Georgette Beck on the Junk to Jewels™ Podcast for one of the most extraordinary conversations the show has ever featured. Known by many as the “13 Lives Renaissance Man,” Greg has survived thirteen documented near-death experiences — beginning at age five — and emerged from each one with a radically transformed understanding of purpose, suffering, and the human spirit. In this conversation, Greg walks Georgette through his very first crossing as a child, the 2005 chlorine-gas incident that unlocked over 3,000 principles of universal wisdom in three days, and the mentors — Zig Ziglar, Earl Nightingale, and W. Clement Stone — who shaped how he processed it all. He shares the four pillars of his Formula 4 Protocol (health, happiness, abundance, and purpose), the practice of “positive affirmative” thinking, and how his story of brokenness became a lifelong mission of helping “the little guy” overcome impossible odds. The conversation closes with Georgette's signature questions — covering favorite books, scripture, mentors, and music — and a look ahead to Greg's upcoming 13 Lives series.
Episode Highlights
The near-death experience at age five that Greg believes he was “trying to check out” of
How a 2005 accidental chlorine gas inhalation unlocked 3,000 principles of universal wisdom in three days
The four pillars of the Formula 4 Protocol: health, happiness, abundance, and purpose
Lessons from mentors Zig Ziglar, Earl Nightingale, and W. Clement Stone
The “positive affirmative” framework for thought, feeling, speech, belief, and receiving
Returning to competitive Judo in his 60s and reinventing his game after the sport changed
A preview of the upcoming 13 Lives series
About Gregory Halpern
Gregory Jesse Halpern is an entrepreneur, inventor, author, martial artist, media personality, and the creator of the upcoming “13 Lives” series — based on his thirteen documented near-death experiences and the extraordinary journey that followed. Over the last five decades, Greg has been featured in more than 500 media appearances, pioneered breakthrough ventures in health technology and crowdfunding, competed at elite levels in international martial arts, and devoted much of his life to helping people overcome pain, limitation, fear, and adversity.
Beyond the accomplishments, Greg's story is ultimately about transformation. Through unimaginable setbacks, spiritual awakenings, survival against impossible odds, and a lifelong search for deeper meaning, he has dedicated himself to uplifting others with messages of resilience, purpose, healing, faith, and human potential. Today, through his platforms, including Patriot Inner Circle and Formula 4 Protocol, Greg continues sharing wisdom, inspiration, and real-world strategies for building a stronger, healthier, and more purposeful life.
Connect with Gregory Halpern
Website: greghalpernvideo.com
Formula 4 Protocol: formula4protocol.com
Instagram: @itsthedopeshit
Facebook: Gregory Jesse Halpern (search his name on Facebook)
Chapters
Timestamps below are estimated based on conversation flow, since the raw transcript does not include audio timing — please adjust once you have the edited episode in front of you.
00:00 Welcome and Introducing Gregory Halpern
02:15 Age Five: The First Near-Death Experience
07:30 The Car Accident and a Passionate Love for Good
10:00 The 2005 Chlorine Gas Experience
14:00 Suffering or Purpose? Holding Both Together
19:30 What Lies on the Other Side
22:00 Faith, God, and the Meaning of His Name
25:00 Mentored by Zig Ziglar, Earl Nightingale & W. Clement Stone
31:00 Judo, Reinvention, and Staying Grounded
36:00 The Formula 4 Protocol: Health, Happiness, Abundance, Purpose
44:00 The Positive Affirmative and Manifestation
50:00 Junk to Jewels Moments and Life Lessons
55:00 The 13 Lives Series and What's Next
58:00 Closing Questions: Books, Scripture, Mentors, Music
1:05:00 Final Thoughts and Where to Find Greg
Closing Questions & Answers (Quick Reference)
Favorite book: Deprenyl: The Anti-Aging Drug
Favorite quote/affirmation: The Serenity Prayer, and his own: “Be patient, or you'll become a patient.”
Mentor who impacted his life: Bruce Lee (spiritually) — plus Zig Ziglar, Earl Nightingale, and W. Clement Stone
Café chat, past or present: Bruce Lee
Message to someone going through a hard season: Focus on the positive affirmative — think it, feel it, speak it, believe it, and receive it
Favorite music: Loves nearly every genre; Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon is a favorite, alongside Mozart and Beethoven
Georgette Beck
Georgette Beck is host of the Junk to Jewels™ Podcast, award-winning author of Junk to Jewels: A Journey from Brokenness & Despair to Beauty & Delight (International Impact Book Awards winner, Inspirational/Transformational category, and Semi-Finalist in the 2025 Royal Palm Literary Award Competition with the Florida Writers Association), Realtor at Beach Front Becks, and Founder & President of Bella Healing Hearts Foundation, supporting single-parent families through mentorship, education, and scholarships.
Book: a.co/d/0etqV85U
Instagram: @georgette.beck
Facebook: Georgette Beck Writer
LinkedIn: Georgette Beck
Twitter/X: @GeorgetteMBeck
TikTok: @georgette2038
YouTube: @georgettebeck9168
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1 hr 12 min
August 08From Nicaragua to New Beginnings: Lindsey Tercero's Story of Grit and Grace
At just 17, Lindsey Tercero has already lived a story worth telling. A recent graduate of Fort Pierce Central High School and a Bella Healing Hearts Foundation scholarship recipient, Lindsey immigrated from Nicaragua during her sophomore year — arriving with limited English and an unshakeable determination to build a new life. In this heart-to-heart conversation, she opens up about founding her school's first Spanish National Honor Society chapter, serving as FBLA president, losing her father at age eight, navigating her mother's return to Nicaragua for medical care, and finding "family of the heart" in unexpected places. Lindsey shares her love of literature (1984 by George Orwell), her senior quote from Dostoevsky's White Nights, and her big dream of becoming an immigration or real estate attorney. This fall, she begins her Associate of Arts at Indian River State College — and she's just getting started.
Chapter Timestamps
00:00 — Welcome & introducing Lindsey, a Bella Healing Hearts scholarship recipient
02:30 — Immigrating from Nicaragua and building a new life in Port St. Lucie
05:15 — Founding her school's first Spanish National Honor Society chapter
08:40 — Finishing her AA and dreams of Florida Atlantic or Florida State
11:20 — Losing her father at age eight — grief that arrives in its own time
17:00 — Her mother's health, her return to Nicaragua, and finding "family of the heart"
22:45 — Georgette's Four C's: Contemplation, Community, Counseling, Contribution
25:10 — Big dreams: law school and a future in immigration or real estate law
28:30 — A word to her generation — and to the adults who doubt them
31:00 — Closing questions: favorite book, mentors, and a heart-to-heart with her dad
36:15 — Closing thoughts and how to follow Lindsey's journey
Closing Questions
Favorite book: 1984 by George Orwell — a story about staying true to yourself
Favorite quote: "How could you live and have no story to tell?" — White Nights, Fyodor Dostoevsky (also her senior quote)
Heart-to-heart with anyone, past or present: her father, Emilio
Mentor who impacted her life: too many to name — her sister, her mother, her teachers, and the books and stories that shaped her
What she'd say to someone going through what she has: "Keep going. Think about your future, and trust that you have a purpose here."

Connect with Georgette
Book: https://a.co/d/0etqV85U
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/georgette.beck/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GeorgetteBeckWriter
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgette-beck-7a659387/
Twitter: https://x.com/GeorgetteMBeck
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@georgette2038
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@georgettebeck9168
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39 min
July 31 Vicky Tiel: From Paris Couture to Farm Life — Elizabeth Taylor, Coco Chanel & Choosing Happiness
Georgette Beck welcomes legendary Paris couturier Vicky Tiel to the Junk to Jewels™ Podcast for a conversation that moves from a Parsons School rejection to a couture empire built at the heart of Hollywood glamour. Vicky shares how she arrived in Paris at twenty with a dream, a best friend, and a lace mini dress — and how that dress caught Elizabeth Taylor's eye and launched a twenty-five-year friendship.
The two swap stories of a legendary dinner with Coco Chanel, who made both women promise to create a perfume — a promise that led to Elizabeth Taylor's bestselling fragrance and the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation, and to Vicky's own perfume, complete with a bottle she hand-sculpted herself. Vicky opens up about decades of jet-set living, celebrity and royal clients, a difficult divorce, and the transformation that followed when she married a Key West fisherman, moved to a quiet farm, and gave up drinking and smoking for good, thirty years and counting.
Throughout the episode, Vicky returns again and again to one message: happiness is a daily choice. From dressing-room confessions to lessons Elizabeth Taylor taught her about kindness and generosity, from faith to the healing power of nature, Vicky's story is a masterclass in turning what felt broken into something beautiful — proof that it's never too late to choose joy.
Episode Chapters
00:00 Welcome and Introduction
01:48 Health and Empowerment
02:11 Parsons Rejection to Paris
04:10 Early Hustle and Money Rules
05:51 Elizabeth Taylor Connection
08:31 Coco Chanel Dinner
10:53 Perfume and Creative Leap
12:55 Farm Life and Sobriety Reset
16:27 Farm Life Reset
17:20 Junk To Jewel Question
17:52 Happiness Is A Choice
18:04 Dressing Room Confessions
20:08 Elizabeth's Lessons
21:34 Paris Days And Fashion Shift
23:53 Self Worth And Healing
25:13 Faith And Helping Others
26:38 Beauty Therapy And Jewelry
27:22 Perfume And Believing
28:05 Marlon Brando Tea Date
28:26 Stay Happy Closing

Vicky Tiel Contact
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vicky.tiel.2025
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vickytiel/

About Your Host — Georgette Beck
Georgette Beck is an author, podcast host, lay minister, mentor, and Founder & President of Bella Healing Hearts Foundation. Her book, Junk to Jewels: A Journey from Brokenness & Despair to Beauty & Delight, won the International Impact Book Awards (Inspirational/Transformational category) and was a Semi-Finalist in the 2025 Royal Palm Literary Award Competition with the Florida Writers Association.

Book (Junk to Jewels): https://a.co/d/0etqV85U
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/georgette.beck/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GeorgetteBeckWriter
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgette-beck-7a659387/
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TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@georgette2038
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32 min
July 24Mercy in the Mess: Lori Stanley Roeleveld on Writing Through Loss, MS, and Estrangement
Episode Description
In this episode of the Junk to Jewels™ Podcast, Georgette sits down with author, speaker, and coach Lori Stanley Roeleveld — self-described "disturber of hobbits" — for a conversation that moves from a complicated childhood in Hope Valley, Rhode Island to a lifetime of persevering faith. Lori shares what it was like growing up in a home shaped by untreated mental health struggles and alcohol, coming to Christ at age four during a televised Billy Graham Crusade, and spending her early school years reading and writing alone in the school library after testing years ahead of grade level. She opens up about her father's 65-year career as a firefighter and 51 years as fire chief, his remarkable transformation, the sudden estrangement from her mother and brother the day her father died, her husband Rob's MS diagnosis, and a near-fatal dog attack on the job. Lori and Georgette also dig into the writing life — Lori's viral 2014 blog post that reached over two million readers, her process for writing seven award-winning books (including her newest, God's Abundant Mercy), and what it means to live on "the Lord's faith payroll." It's a rich, honest conversation about mercy, resilience, and finding the jewels in the junk.
Listener Takeaways
How childhood hardship — and even being labeled "different" — can become the training ground for a lifelong ministry of words
Why success can be just as spiritually dangerous as failure, and the importance of asking God to keep sanctification ahead of platform growth
How to hold onto faith through parental estrangement, chronic illness in marriage, and unexpected trauma
A practical writing process (the "madwoman, architect, carpenter, judge" method) for anyone trying to write in the margins of a full life
What it looks like to trust God's provision — living on "the Lord's faith payroll" — when income doesn't look like a steady paycheck
Chapter Timestamps
(Insert final timestamps once episode is edited — suggested chapter markers below)
00:00 — Welcome & introducing Lori Stanley Roeleveld
Growing up in Hope Valley, Rhode Island
Her father's 65-year firefighting legacy and life transformation
Coming to Christ at age four during a Billy Graham Crusade
The girl in the school library: giftedness, isolation, and God's provision
Losing her father and the sudden estrangement from her mother and brother
Marriage, Rob's MS diagnosis, and their 130-year-old fixer-upper home
Surviving a severe on-the-job dog attack
The writing life: seven books, a viral blog post, and living on the Lord's faith payroll
Closing questions: favorite book, favorite verse, a coffee with C.S. Lewis' circle, and a word to her younger self
About Our Guest — Lori Stanley Roeleveld
Lori Stanley Roeleveld is an author, speaker, coach, and disturber of hobbits. She teaches biblical truth with gentle humor and invites weary believers back to the narrow road through her ministry of words. She has written seven award-winning books, including her newest release, God's Abundant Mercy (Our Daily Bread Publishing), and her sixth book won the Golden Scroll Award for Christian Living Book of the Year in 2024. Though she holds degrees in psychology and biblical studies from Barrington College (now merged with Gordon College), Lori says she has learned the most from studying her Bible in life's trenches. She spent much of her career working in human services with teens and families in crisis. Lori is a wife, retired homeschool mom, mother of adults, and "Omi" to five grandsons. She and her husband Rob have been married 37 years and live in a 130-year-old house in Rhode Island that is his ongoing restoration project.
Connect with Lori:
Website: https://www.loriroeleveld.com
Coaching & Freelance: https://www.takeheartcoachingandfreelance.com
Substack: https://loriroeleveld.substack.com/
Featured books: Running from a Crazy Man, Red Pen Redemption, Jesus and the Beanstalk, The Art of Hard Conversations, Colorful Connections, Graceful Influence, and God's Abundant Mercy.
About Your Host — Georgette Beck
Georgette Beck is an author, podcast host, lay minister, mentor, and Founder & President of Bella Healing Hearts Foundation. Her book, Junk to Jewels: A Journey from Brokenness & Despair to Beauty & Delight, won the International Impact Book Awards (Inspirational/Transformational category) and was a Semi-Finalist in the 2025 Royal Palm Literary Award Competition with the Florida Writers Association.
Book (Junk to Jewels): https://a.co/d/0etqV85U
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/georgette.beck/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GeorgetteBeckWriter
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgette-beck-7a659387/
Twitter/X: https://x.com/GeorgetteMBeck
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@georgette2038
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@georgettebeck9168
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